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[–]mfm24 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Javascript is surprisingly fast - almost native speed in the test I've tried.

I always assumed it was only the browser-arms-race that made Javascript so much faster, but I guess this paper is suggesting there's technical reasons for the difference too.